Site has dissappeared – help!

amxleggott · Member · Aug 29, 2012 at 11:30 pm
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hi
trying to access the admin panel for the site http://newtownresidents.wordpress.com
but getting an install page /wp-admin/install.php which seems to indicate the site doenst exist any more?

Can you help? note that we did have this site linked to a url newtownra.com but we no longer own this domain and want to point this site to a new domain?

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staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 29, 2012 at 11:34 pm
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I’m sorry about that! I have removed the expired domain from your account.
amxleggott · Member · Aug 30, 2012 at 5:53 am
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Thanks for the prompt response! much appreciated
staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm
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You’re welcome!
amxleggott · Member · Sep 4, 2012 at 12:35 am
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Hi
hoping you can help me with a related issue..

am now trying to redirect a new url to this wordpress site..

instructions on http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/ say we need to update the name servers… to NS1.wordpress.com , NS2 etc

But my name server is asking me for this url AND the IP of the name server – can you clarify where i get the IP info from?

Plus they are also asking me for a technical contact details for the name server.. any advice on what i should put there?

ta
staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 4, 2012 at 6:19 pm
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For their IP addresses, use:
```
72.233.69.14
76.74.159.137
64.34.177.159
```
I’m not sure why they want contact details, but they could reply here if they need anything.
amxleggott · Member · Sep 5, 2012 at 9:30 am
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Great, thanks

I’ve done the redirect at our DNS controller (www.domainz.net.nz) – then did the domain mapping purchase and setup in WP, and switched it over to the new url, but its redirecting to a parked url
eg http://www.domainz.net.nz/parked.asp?h=newtown.org.nz

is there something else i need to do ? or is this a matter of the new DNS needing to propagate? should i switch it back to the wordpress.com url for now?
amxleggott · Member · Sep 5, 2012 at 7:30 pm
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oh, wait, this seems to have sorted itself now – must have just been a time thing.

one final question – its using the http://newtown.org.nz form rather than the http://www.newtown.org.nz form – if we want it to default to the www. form is that a configuration issue at the wordpress end, the DNS controller end, or both?

ta
jenia · Member · Sep 6, 2012 at 5:31 pm
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WordPress.com always redirects the www subdomain to the non-www version. Because of this, you can still use www version of your custom domain on your signature or business cards if you’d like.

I hope this helps – happy blogging :)
amxleggott · Member · Sep 8, 2012 at 3:56 am
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ok, thanks for clarification
jenia · Member · Sep 8, 2012 at 4:05 am
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You are welcome – happy blogging :)

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